'Unable to fetch some archives' error while 'Installing SSHFS client'

[mattarau]

EDIT: Ubuntu guest only

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Hello,

Since yesterday I‘ve been getting this error when setting up new Ubuntu and Debian VMs with the vagrant-sshfs plugin:

...
==> default: Installing SSHFS client...
The following SSH command responded with a non-zero exit status.
Vagrant assumes that this means the command failed!

apt-get install -y sshfs

Stdout from the command:

Reading package lists...
Building dependency tree...
Reading state information...
The following extra packages will be installed:
  fuse libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libxml2 sgml-base shared-mime-info
  xml-core
Suggested packages:
  sgml-base-doc debhelper
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  fuse libglib2.0-0 libglib2.0-data libxml2 sgml-base shared-mime-info sshfs
  xml-core
0 upgraded, 8 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,262 kB of archives.
After this operation, 11.2 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main libglib2.0-0 amd64 2.40.2-0ubuntu1 [1,058 kB]
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main libxml2 amd64 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.6
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.26 80]
Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main libxml2 amd64 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.6
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.152 80]
Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main sgml-base all 1.26+nmu4ubuntu1 [12.5 kB]
Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main fuse amd64 2.9.2-4ubuntu4.14.04.1 [25.1 kB]
Get:4 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main libglib2.0-data all 2.40.2-0ubuntu1 [116 kB]
Get:5 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main shared-mime-info amd64 1.2-0ubuntu3 [415 kB]
Get:6 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main xml-core all 0.13+nmu2 [23.3 kB]
Get:7 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main sshfs amd64 2.5-1ubuntu1 [41.7 kB]
Fetched 1,691 kB in 2s (620 kB/s)


Stderr from the command:

stdin: is not a tty
E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libx/libxml2/libxml2_2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.6_amd64.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.152 80]

E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?

As the error suggested, I‘ve ssh-ed into the guest machine and ran sudo apt-get update --fix-missing. Then exit, vagrant reload and everything went fine:

...
==> default: Installing SSHFS client...
==> default: Mounting SSHFS shared folder...
==> default: Mounting folder via SSHFS: [host-folder-path] => [guest-folder-path]
==> default: Checking Mount..
==> default: Checking Mount..
==> default: Folder Successfully Mounted!
...

I‘m not sure if just running sudo apt-get update --fix-missing when this error happens would be an ideal solution, but I saw that something similar has already been done for Arch.

I glad to send a PR, but I probably need to first discuss what‘s the best approach, since I don‘t have much experience developing vagrant plugins.

Cheers!

[dustymabe]

Hi, thanks for the report. I've been traveling the past few days. Please ping me again in a week if I haven't looked into this.

[dustymabe]

this works fine on debian/jessie64. Ubuntu doesn't make libvirt images (only vbox) and I don't have a virtualbox setup to try this on right now. Can you see if the problem happens on debian for you?

[mattarau]

Hey @dustymabe,

I‘ve tested it with debian/jessie64 (also with debian/wheezy64 and minimal/wheezy64) and this error is not happening. It actually had a different error and I opened a separated issue for it: #71

The problem above seems to happen only on Ubuntu, since the actual error on the messages are:

...
Err http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main libxml2 amd64 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.6
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.91.26 80]
Err http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main libxml2 amd64 2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.6
  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.152 80]
...
E: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/libx/libxml2/libxml2_2.9.1+dfsg1-3ubuntu4.6_amd64.deb  404  Not Found [IP: 91.189.88.152 80]

This is probably because some boxes are old and haven‘t been updated for a while, so their packages list is not updated with Ubuntu‘s repository (more about this here).

So, I‘m pretty sure it might be solved by running apt-get update before apt-get install -y sshfs.

Let me know if you need more info.

Cheers!

[dustymabe]

Thanks for the info. I'll try to get a system with vbox and test ubuntu and make the relevant changes.

[dustymabe]

so I tested with ubuntu and did not see the issue (see output below). Is your ubuntu vagrant image up to date? I tested with the one that was built 20170202.

$ vagrant up
Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox' provider...
==> default: Importing base box 'ubuntu/trusty64'...
==> default: Matching MAC address for NAT networking...
==> default: Checking if box 'ubuntu/trusty64' is up to date...
==> default: Setting the name of the VM: ubuntu_default_1486524122144_35361
==> default: Clearing any previously set forwarded ports...
==> default: Clearing any previously set network interfaces...
==> default: When using virtualbox, a non-NAT network interface is required.
==> default: Adding a private network using DHCP
==> default: Preparing network interfaces based on configuration...
    default: Adapter 1: nat
    default: Adapter 2: hostonly
==> default: Forwarding ports...
    default: 22 => 2222 (adapter 1)
==> default: Booting VM...
==> default: Waiting for machine to boot. This may take a few minutes...
    default: SSH address: 127.0.0.1:2222
    default: SSH username: vagrant
    default: SSH auth method: private key
    default: Warning: Remote connection disconnect. Retrying...
    default:
    default: Vagrant insecure key detected. Vagrant will automatically replace
    default: this with a newly generated keypair for better security.
    default:
    default: Inserting generated public key within guest...
    default: Removing insecure key from the guest if it's present...
    default: Key inserted! Disconnecting and reconnecting using new SSH key...
==> default: Machine booted and ready!
==> default: Checking for guest additions in VM...
    default: The guest additions on this VM do not match the installed version of
    default: VirtualBox! In most cases this is fine, but in rare cases it can
    default: prevent things such as shared folders from working properly. If you see
    default: shared folder errors, please make sure the guest additions within the
    default: virtual machine match the version of VirtualBox you have installed on
    default: your host and reload your VM.
    default:
    default: Guest Additions Version: 4.3.36
    default: VirtualBox Version: 5.0
==> default: Configuring and enabling network interfaces...
==> default: Installing SSHFS client...
==> default: Mounting SSHFS shared folder...
==> default: Mounting folder via SSHFS: C:/cygwin64/tmp/ubuntu => /vagrant
==> default: Checking Mount..
==> default: Checking Mount..
==> default: Folder Successfully Mounted!

[dustymabe]

hey @mdentinho - i'm going to close this for now. Please re-open and add more information if you can still reproduce the issue.